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We show that many well-known transforms in convex geometry (in particular, centroid body, convex floating body, and Ulam floating body) are special instances of a general construction, relying on applying sublinear expectations to random…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Ilya Molchanov , Riccardo Turin

We show some characterizations of hyperspheres in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space ${\Bbb E}^{n+1}$ with intrinsic and extrinsic properties such as the $n$-dimensional area of the sections cut off by hyperplanes, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Dong-Soo Kim , Young Ho Kim

This article belongs to the area of geometric tomography, which is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about their sections and projections. We describe a new direction in geometric tomography where different…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Apostolos Giannopoulos , Alexander Koldobsky , Artem Zvavitch

The section volume function $A_K(\xi,t), \ \xi \in \mathbb R^n, \ t \in \mathbb R,$ of a body $K \subset \mathbb R^n$ evaluates the $(n-1)$-dimensional volume of the cross-section $K$ by the hyperplane $\{ x \cdot \xi=t \}.$ We are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Mark Agranovsky

Let us have in S^2, R^2 or H^2 a pair of convex bodies, for S^2 different from S^2, such that the intersections of any congruent copies of them are centrally symmetric. Then our bodies are congruent circles. If the intersections of any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Jesús Jerónimo-Castro , Endre Makai

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

In this work, we present an adaptation of the classical stereographic projection, originally formulated for the sphere, now considering the context of the ellipsoid and the elliptic paraboloid. We begin by constructing the stereographic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-11 W. F. C. Barboza , T. F. Cruz , R. B. Leal

For a convex body $K\subset\R^n$ and $i\in\{1,...,n-1\}$, the function assigning to any $i$-dimensional subspace $L$ of $\R^n$, the $i$-dimensional volume of the orthogonal projection of $K$ to $L$, is called the $i$-th projection function…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ralph Howard , Daniel Hug

Let a $R$-body be a closed set, complement of union of open balls of radius $R$ in the Euclidean space. Properties generalizing similar ones for convex sets are proved for the family of $R$-bodies; properties for the family of sets…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Marco Longinetti , Paolo Manselli , Adriana Venturi

The spherical centroid body of a centrally-symmetric convex body in the Euclidean unit sphere is introduced. Two alternative definitions - one geometric, the other probabilistic in nature - are given and shown to lead to the same objects.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Florian Besau , Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov , Franz E. Schuster

The projection onto the intersection of sets generally does not allow for a closed form even when the individual projection operators have explicit descriptions. In this work, we systematically analyze the projection onto the intersection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Heinz H. Bauschke , Minh N. Bui , Xianfu Wang

In this work we present a theorem regarding two convex bodies $K_1, K_2\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq 3$, and two families of sections of them, given by two families of tangent planes of two spheres $S_i\subset \textrm{int}\textrm{ } K_i$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Efren Morales-Amaya

The celebrated Dvoretzky theorem asserts that every $N$-dimensional convex body admits central sections of dimension $d = \Omega(\log N)$, which is nearly spherical. For many instances of convex bodies, typically unit balls with respect to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Stanislaw Szarek , Pawel Wolff

A convex geometry is a closure system satisfying the anti-exchange property. This paper, following the work of K. Adaricheva and M. Bolat (2016) and the Polymath REU 2020 team, continues to investigate representations of convex geometries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Kira Adaricheva , Evan Daisy , Ayush Garg , Zachary King , Grace Ma , Michelle Olson , Cat Raanes , James Thompson

We write down estimates for the surface area, and more generally, integral mean curvatures of an ellipsoid E in n-dimensional Euclidean space in terms of the lengths of the major semi-axes. We give applications to estimating the area of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

It is proved that for a symmetric convex body K in R^n, if for some tau > 0, |K cap (x+tau K)| depends on ||x||_K only, then K is an ellipsoid. As a part of the proof, smoothness properties of convolution bodies ls are studied.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Mathieu Meyer , Shlomo Reisner , M. Schmuckenschlager

Denote by $S^2$ the two-dimensional sphere. A spherical convex body on $S^2$ which does not properly contain a spherical convex body of the same spherical thickness is called a reduced body. We give three characterizations of reducedness of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Marek Lassak

Let $K$ be a convex body in an affine chart of the $n$ dimensional real Projective space $\mathbb{RP}^n$, $n \geq 3$, let $H$ be a hyperplane which is not a support hyperplane of $K$ and let $p_1,p_2 \in \mathbb{RP}^n \setminus H$ be two…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Efrén Morales-Amaya

We establish some characterizations of elliptic hyperboloids (resp., ellipsoids) in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space ${\Bbb E}^{n+1}$, using the $n$-dimensional area of the sections cut off by hyperplanes and the $(n+1)$-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Dong-Soo Kim

An ellipsoid is the image of a ball under an affine transformation. If this affine transformation is over the complex numbers, we refer to it as a complex ellipsoid. Characterizations of real ellipsoids have received much attention over the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Jorge Luis Arocha , Javier Bracho , Luis Montejano